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1940-05-06 Joseph Evans to John & Mary Evans Page 2
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2 there would be endless opportunities for important and original scholarship; in this way, also, I would tie together my M.A. and my doctoral thesis. The whole thing sounds most attractive to me at present, but we did not decide anything definite. This conference with Foerster was, I am sure, a very politic move on my part: by going to him with my problems, by allowing him to suggest things which I should do, courses which I should take, and especially people under whom I should work, I insure myself, as it were, against any later factional obstacles such as we were discussing with Helene Margaret on Friday; it is, I mean, much better to have Foerster partly responsible for my program than for me to go along on my own or under the guidance of anti-Foerstenians. After this I went to the employment bureau to see what I could do about part-time work for the summer, but I did not get much help there. In the first place, the application which I filled out
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2 there would be endless opportunities for important and original scholarship; in this way, also, I would tie together my M.A. and my doctoral thesis. The whole thing sounds most attractive to me at present, but we did not decide anything definite. This conference with Foerster was, I am sure, a very politic move on my part: by going to him with my problems, by allowing him to suggest things which I should do, courses which I should take, and especially people under whom I should work, I insure myself, as it were, against any later factional obstacles such as we were discussing with Helene Margaret on Friday; it is, I mean, much better to have Foerster partly responsible for my program than for me to go along on my own or under the guidance of anti-Foerstenians. After this I went to the employment bureau to see what I could do about part-time work for the summer, but I did not get much help there. In the first place, the application which I filled out
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